ImageMagick packaging change on Alpine Linux

In Alpine Linux 3.18 and earlier, it was sufficient to install the imagemagick package by itself to operate on any image format, including modern ones such as HEIC and WebP. In later versions of Alpine Linux, that’s no longer the case. Starting in Alpine Linux 3.19, the support files for HEIC, WebP, and other image formats moved into sub-packages like imagemagick-heic and imagemagick-webp; see https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=61dce5f6a84d9f96ab7aa6437f12d2845b572ed8. The problem After upgrading Alpine Linux, this packaging change could lead to errors due to missing image format support files. For example: ...

3 September, 2024 · Max Smolens